Energy economist Kenneth Costello deconstructs New Mexico’s senseless energy policy
Kenneth Costello is an Adjunct Scholar on Energy Policy with the Rio Grande Foundation. He wrote the following piece for the free market Independent Institute based in California. New Mexico did not become one of the poorest states in the nation overnight. It took decades of bad policymaking, and—as we saw during the recently-completed legislative session—that poor policymaking shows no sign of turning around soon.